First draw goes to Lakers

Game 1 goes the Los Angeles Lakers.

After a week of hyping up the rivalry between the Lakers and the Boston Celtics, the two teams started their twelfth meeting in the NBA Finals.

The Lakers came out setting the tone against the Celtics. Telling Boston that they are not the soft team in the series and they are not going to put up with all the trash talking prior to leading up to the game.

Ron Artest sent the first message after tangling with Paul Pierce in the first 30 seconds of the game.

After that play, the Lakers kept the lead and never looked back.

The Lakers were soft in their front line in 2008 against the Celtics, but in Game 1 last night, the Lakers front line had 48 points in the paint.

Pau Gasol was the player everyone was looking at to see if he would be tougher against Keven Garnett.

Gasol did not waste no time to show everyone he is no longer a soft big man. Gasol finished with 23 points and 14 rebounds (eight of them being offensive rebounds.)

Kobe Bryant picked up where he left off at in the Phoenix series, since he finished with 30 points, seven rebounds and six assists in Game 1.

Bryant did not let nothing distract him, not even the comedian, Chris Rock, as Rock tried to crack a smile from him.

Boston had been talking trash for the past four days, and claiming they were going to win Game 1, but it looked as if they did not know what hit them after the Lakers came out as a team that the Celtics never knew existed.

The Lakers are focused to defeat the Celtics and not only get revenge from 2008, but repeat as NBA Champions.

As Bryant said after the Phoenix series, Boston is just a team that is in the way of the Lakers from the title.

Lakers are on their way to a repeat.